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Revision as of 22:49, 1 March 2021
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Privileged Process
Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and unprivileged processes. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root. Privileged processes bypass all kernel permission checks.
TODO reconcile https://kb.novaordis.com/index.php/Docker_Security#Privileged_Container
Unprivileged Process
An unprivileged process is a process with a non-zero its effective user ID. Unprivileged processes are subject to full permission checking based on the process' credentials: effective UID, effective GID and supplementary group list.